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The Infernal Devices is the prequel series to The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare. It was the second published series in The Shadowhunter Chronicles, but is the first story chronologically.

Set in Victorian London, the series follows Tessa Gray, an orphaned teenage girl who discovers she has the power to shapeshift, abilities that plunge her into a world she never knew existed. She will have to forge an alliance with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute if she wants to survive in this dangerous world.

Books[]

Titles[]

Audiobook editions[]

  • Clockwork Angel was narrated by Jennifer Ehle.
  • Clockwork Prince was narrated by Ed Westwick and Heather Lind.
  • Clockwork Princess was narrated by Daniel Sharman.

Gallery[]

Adaptations[]

On April 12, 2013, months prior to the release of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, it was announced that a film adaptation of The Infernal Devices was in the works, with the screenplay being written by Stephanie Sanditz with a search for the director ongoing at the time,[1] though a script has been in development as early as 2011.[2] No follow-up news has been given since and the project has likely been scrapped.

Plans for a TV adaptation were made instead.[3] A writer for the pilot episode's script was assigned as early as 2017,[4] and the series was being shopped around by Constantin Film to different potential networks and distributors.[5] A report came out in May 2020 claiming that the series pilot landed at BBC Three,[6] though this has never been confirmed by another source or mentioned by Clare herself in the years since.

After the release of Clockwork Prince, Yen Press created a manga adaptation of the series with illustrator HyeKyung Baek. The series finished a year after Clockwork Princess's release and an omnibus hardback edition was published 8 years later on August 23, 2022.[7]

Trivia[]

  • The series is very loosely modeled after A Tale of Two Cities,[8] especially Clockwork Princess, which was always meant to be a loose retelling of the book.[9]
  • The series title refers to the clockwork automatons, created by the main antagonist, which were sometimes referred to as "Infernal Devices" in the trilogy.
  • Originally, the book titles included the prefix "The" and the order was different from the final order—namely The Clockwork Princess was set to be book one.[10]
  • Cassandra Clare got the idea for the series while on the Blackfriars Bridge, hence the bridge's significance in the series.[11]
  • The US/Canada paperback book covers for The Infernal Devices are being updated (repackaged) and officially replaced with new ones with a more modern look, to be released in September 2015 by Simon & Schuster.[12] The covers were revealed on May 13, 2015 on Tor.com.[13]
  • Simon & Schuster may have had further plans to do alternative "adult covers" for the series that were seemingly scrapped.[14][15]

References[]

Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter Chronicles
The Mortal Instruments
City of Bones City of Ashes City of Glass
City of Fallen Angels City of Lost Souls City of Heavenly Fire
The Infernal Devices The Dark Artifices
Clockwork Angel Lady Midnight
Clockwork Prince Lord of Shadows
Clockwork Princess Queen of Air and Darkness
The Last Hours The Wicked Powers
Chain of Gold The Last King of Faerie
Chain of Iron The Last Prince of Hell
Chain of Thorns The Last Shadowhunter
The Eldest Curses
The Red Scrolls of Magic The Lost Book of the White The Black Volume of the Dead
The Bane Chronicles
What Really Happened in Peru Saving Raphael Santiago
The Runaway Queen The Fall of the Hotel Dumort
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything
The Midnight Heir The Last Stand of the New York Institute
The Rise of the Hotel Dumort The Course of True Love (And First Dates)
The Voicemail of Magnus Bane
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy Pale Kings and Princes
The Lost Herondale Bitter of Tongue
The Whitechapel Fiend The Fiery Trial
Nothing but Shadows Born to Endless Night
The Evil We Love Angels Twice Descending
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
Cast Long Shadows Son of the Dawn
Every Exquisite Thing The Land I Lost
Learn About Loss Through Blood, Through Fire
A Deeper Love The Lost World
The Wicked Ones Forever Fallen
Companion books
Secrets of Blackthorn Hall
Better in Black: Tales of Romance
The Shadowhunter's Codex
A Long Conversation
An Illustrated History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of Downworld
All the Stories are True: Classics Reimagined in the World of the Shadowhunters
Adaptations
The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novels
The Official Mortal Instruments Coloring Book
The Infernal Devices: Manga Series
City of Bones: The Graphic Novel
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
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